Emil Guillermo
Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his "Amok" column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. “Amok” was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S.
His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.
His early columns are compiled in a book “Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective,” which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000.
Guillermo’s journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted “All Things Considered” from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.
As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C.
After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.
After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK.
Guillermo’s columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. “NCM-TV: New California Media” was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable.
Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California’s Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California’s sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards.
In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was an Ivy Orator and class humorist, a distinction shared by fellow Lampoon members like James Downey (Saturday Night Live) and Conan O’Brien.
Find out what he’s up to at www.amok.com.
Emil Guillermo writing
2023
- Emil Guillermo: 95th Oscars the Golden Spike for AAPI creatives, plus my foray into actingBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden has an answer for sexism and racism, but can he beat back America’s ageism?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A gunman is one of us. Should we be surprised?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Succession," Viet Dinh, and anti-Proud Boy judge Amit MehtaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Historical Jan. 6 events at the Capitol bring up shameful anti-Asian American historyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump coins a new Asian slur–"Chinatown"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For Asian American Filipinos, the power player is Loida Nicolas LewisBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: From "Bloody Sunday" to Ishmael Reed's "The Conductor"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Emil Amok, masked in ManhattanBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Hawaii's Iam Tongi and his "American Idol" win; plus, Harvard's Asian Americans and my solution to "fair admissions"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: We know the killer in Monterey Park; now mourn the loss and note the real threat of gunsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Pondering the historic indictment in New York, and the first presidential mugshot?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Cries and screams in order after mass shooting in Allen, Texas mars AANHPI Heritage MonthBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The SCOTUS tease on affirmative actionBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Robert Hur, Ke Huy Quan, and MLKBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: An Asian American perspective on the history-making of Trump and Harvard BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Flip Nauta, flip? Why Nauta's not likely to flip; plus my Father's Day essayBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: McCarthy's Bakersfield Ugly politics and the 118th CongressBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Harvard Filipino joke and the death knell for affirmative action BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The coincidence of AANHPI Month and Mental Health Awareness MonthBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: What I think of when you say AANHPI Heritage MonthBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Barbara Walters, Pope Benedict XVI, and the NFL's Damar Hamlin, plus a Purdue slur updateBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Trump Indictments–Where Do You Stand on the Waltine Nauta ScaleBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Tyre Nichols; Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay update-suspect confesses; Corky Lee, and Emil Amok in NYCBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Thinking about gun violence and Thai Khin, Asian American teen shot and killed in school adjacent incidentBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Joe Biden's roaring back, and he's got our backBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: How I got into Harvard and you can too-- In spite of SCOTUS affirmative action opinionBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Celebrating Pride Month and Protecting Drag as Free SpeechBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Indiana attack may force Purdue's hand to acknowledge anti-AAPAI racism in stateBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Whatever happens, the SCOTUS opinion on the Harvard affirmative action case won't be the last wordBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Executive Order 9066, racism, the brain, and Presidents DayBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Justin Jones is still black. . . and Asian American FilipinoBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Half Moon Bay, Monterey Park, and the AAPI assimilation into America's gun narrative BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On James Hong's "Everything Everywhere All At Once" awards moment and remembering Victor WongBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Asian American moment in the Tennessee attack on democracyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Justice delayed and denied, from Juneteenth to Vincent ChinBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Walt Nauta, native of Guam, and the legacy of colonizationBLOG
2022
- Emil Guillermo: Asian American? Do we know how we all feel about living in America?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hopes dim for celebration on voting rights legislation by MLK Day, but the fight never endsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Remembering Ninoy Aquino while saying farewell to CNN's "Reliable Sources"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My respect for marriage and why interracial marriages had to be part of the new law BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Uvalde, Texas shooting a reminder, gun control is an AAPI issueBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian American Filipina Olivia Rodrigo's three Grammys make her the Gen Z future–for nowBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Remembering Fred T. Korematsu and a 6-3 Supreme Court from a different timeBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A last dance at the top for California Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani Cantil-SakauyeBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Law and order, Trump, and the Muslim killingsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Rallying for truth and democracy a year after Jan. 6 from an Asian American perspectiveBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Norman Y. Mineta, Mr. Asian America, made this a special AAPI Heritage Month BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Liz Cheney wants you–for democracy's sakeBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Was the ethnic vote America's Blue Wave rising...or falling?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Walter Nauta, “Jeopardy,” LA City Council racism, and the first Filipinos to the New WorldBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: White House Correspondents Dinner is milestone for normalcy as Biden leads with First AmendmentBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Golden Gu-ster's identity problem and why we need to hear from Ailing Eileen GuBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My post-Thanksgiving gut punch–remembering Ninoy and Stephen BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Four decades since five days of pain–a way to remember Vincent Chin and forget, not forgive, his killerBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: SCOTUS, Dred Scott, Filipino American history, and Ishmael Reed's new play BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: One year into the Biden Administration, we've all been pushed like Michelle GoBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans know Will Smith's casual violence can be deadly BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In California, an Asian American Republican's cry of racism is just a strategic ployBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After yet another mass shooting, GOP and NRA still covered in blood, playing dead BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For Ketanji Brown Jackson, the path to justice was undeniableBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Pelosi's stand in Taiwan and the choice of democracy over autocracy even here.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will the first Asian American president fire the racist chancellor at Purdue in 2023?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden’s Fist Bump of Penance, but did he ever use the “P” word with MBS? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The raid of FPOTUS, and you know what the F stands forBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On voting rights, it was Biden's "I Have A Dream"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Buffalo victims could have been Asian American under "replacement theory"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: When Politicians Fail, I’ve Got My Own Mask PolicyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Some Asian American history, but no telescope helps see truth of Jan. 6BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Bloody Sunday, plus Pumping for Peace and taking on higher gas prices for tougher Russian sanctionsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On guns, the Jan. 6 hearings on democracy, and the TonysBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Queen? I'm mourning Henry Fuhrmann, the Asian American who liberated us from the hyphen BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: It's Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month AND Mental Health Awareness Month. Do you know where the next shooters are?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Fanone's Asian American kids, Jan. 6 apologies, and Vincent ChinBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: America gets "A" in nuclear physics, but flunks anti-Asian hate crime mathBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Harvard admits record 80 percent Asian Americans for incoming fall class; plus, Sen. Ted Cruz is neither Asian nor a womanBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Thoughts as we approach one year after the Atlanta spa murdersBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: California Asian Americans should revere the leadership of Sen. Dianne FeinsteinBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On DACA, Filipino history, and HarvardBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The names in the confluence of history: 9/11 and a Queen's funeral, an empire's reckoningBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Many Asian American Filipinos dread a Marcos victoryBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My pre-Thanksgiving colonoscopyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hurricane Ian dumps on DeSantis, lifts BidenBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On indigenous people, vegan justice, DACA, and the NBA's workplace violence problemBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Obamas remind us how democracy worked for all; Plus, dreaming of an Asian American presidential portraitBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Earth Day, save the planet. Save yourself. Go vegan.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On watching Zelensky's speech on a day that lives in infamy for Asian AmericansBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Nathan Chen, Chloe Kim–Americans in Asia, our Olympic gold. Model minorities or just medal minorities? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hearing Christina Yuna Lee's screamsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Winter Olympics? First, we remember the Uyghurs BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans know why we're here. All that is at stake on Election Day, Nov. 8.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Of Simu Liu's Jeopardy, Jin Yut Lew's jeopardy, and a good win for all of usBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Roe reversal makes America suddenly more Filipino. Unfortunately.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A monk's last breath and the high anxiety of affirmative actionBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Purdue Northwest Chancellor's Asian slur and why it's still the AAPI story of the moment BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Warnock saw Asian Americans and helped people see the future of politicsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The first time I saw a million people marching in the streets unitedBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Shinzo Abe, Highland Park, Guns.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My trickle up theory and how student loan forgiveness denial should motivate Asian Americans to voteBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: With race-conscious college admissions at Harvard and UNC, our stories are on the lineBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: 2022 and the colonial scars are still open wounds - Podcast with a student struggling with history at the home of the colonizer BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: New waves of xenophobia toward Asian Americans?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The State of the Union may be strong, but the speech could have been even strongerBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Georgia's vote for No. 1; in Oakland, No. 2 was good enoughBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Roe v. Wade overturned and the tears in our divided countryBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Best and worst presidents; Japanese American internment plus 80; and democracy's fight for UkraineBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: There's never been an Asian American on the U.S. Supreme CourtBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Olympian Eileen Gu's blurred loyaltiesBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Patriotic matters–Rep. Judy Chu's Asian American civil disobedience; Ketanji Brown Jackson; Thinking of Jan. 6th on July 4thBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: California's primary–Bonta, Boudin and recallBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fight for freedom and diversity; What Ukraine and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson tell us about the world and our nation BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Michelle Steel's shame sours hopeful signs after 2022 midtermsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans should see ourselves in Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson BLOG
2021
- Emil Guillermo: Asian American Filipina Journalist Maria Ressa wins Nobel Peace PrizeBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: When I see George Floyd, I see an Asian American–and so should you BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: What I learned meditating on my Vincent Chin "retreat"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On the 79th anniversary of E.O. 9066 and the incarceration of Japanese Americans, xenophobia is alive and wellBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans must demand accountability for Trump's Insurrection DayBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Juneteenth and Vincent Chin's June 19thBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Filipino American labor leader Larry Itliong's principles and a last word on Colin PowellBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will Biden's words make a difference for Asian Americans or does the hate get recycled?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: No sex, just lies and Trump's audio tape to overturn the electionBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Remembering Corky Lee and the deaths from the Covid War and Modern LifeBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Shooting deaths in Atlanta highlight Asian American fears as hate incidents near 4,000 casesBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Filipino nurses, Lisa Ling and Vincent Chin, and Filipino American history BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Vax Americana and 9/11–Getting the vaccine out and getting to be one country againBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Branson's trip? Nothing like an Asian American immigrant's journeyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On "Firsterism" and other lessons from Gen. Colin PowellBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I can beat the virus in Vax Americana, but maybe not the anti-Asian racism. For that, I need a shot of Vincent Chin.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Michelle Wu, Aftab Pureval, and Bruce Harrell drive Asian American hopes for our democracyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Rob Bonta, Filipino American nominated for California Attorney GeneralBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Ohtani attacks make Stephen A. Smith the modern-day Al CampanisBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Simone Biles is back but let's not forget Suni Lee's gold medal stereotype bustingBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Assault gun ban overturned in California–an opportunity for new State AG Rob Bonta? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Our Asian Heritage Month? Say the full name. Say it all.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hana St. Juliana of Oxford, Michigan, and other Asian American casualties of gun violenceBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Does Anyone See Us This AANHPIHM?–Plus, Death To the Standardized Asian American and Asian JokesBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden's executive order beats the "kung flu," maybe more?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I'm negative and I'm proud; plus the grace of Alex Urtula's familyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Republicans who voted against the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act don't care about Asian AmericansBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Bigotry on Broadway, 'South Pacific,' the Tonys, and BD WongBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Discrimination? Harvard early admissions show Asian Americans not left out in the cold; plus a legal updateBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For July 4, how about an American pro-democracy movement?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The second impeachment trial and the power of 74 million votesBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Diversity and the recall effort's "January Sixing" of CaliforniaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In the end, still more Asian American than any Oscars in historyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: #StopAAPIHate needed more than ever; Rittenhouse judge's Asian joke BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Asian American Pakistani man who died in Astroworld tragedy and democracy's mosh pitBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: If you slur an Asian or Asian American like baseball's Jack Morris, here's your "model apology"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans understand impeachment for inciting a white mob BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My short, candid conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda on "In the Heights," "Crazy Rich..." Jon Chu, immigration, "Hamilton," and Ishmael ReedBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Oh Christmas tree, oh Christmas tree, plus how Marjorie Taylor Greene is the wrong color to use yellowBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: More Asian confusion in Georgia as whites fight off call for hate crimes in Atlanta murders; Plus, Asian Americans top Harvard admits BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After the Golden Globes, what is an Asian American anything?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Lowell High students "Try Harder," but SF educators need to do better than eliminate meritBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Atlanta, an Asian American awakening—not just for us, but for the rest of America too.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: H.E.R. Grammy song of George Floyd is our song tooBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: NYC Beating Survivor Vilma Kari is an Asian American FilipinoBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The bitter melon of little-known history–How the Filipinos beat the Pilgrims to AmericaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Where do we belong in the America of Kyle Rittenhouse, Paul Gosar, and Jan. 6? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Getting racial justice without race in the Arbery TrialBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: George Floyd, Angelo Quinto, and the cycle of bad policing BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The inaugural light and magic of Biden, Harris, and GormanBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hate crimes past and present; plus, why does UC Berkeley insist on honoring the colonizers? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: To end 2021 and ring in 2022, DIY: Be your own New Year's BabyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden's speech, Scott's gaffe, and Happy APA Heritage MonthBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My Olympic finale, Suni Lee's future, and how I birthed the word "Cuomosexual"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: In Indianapolis, another mass shooting and more Asian Americans are killedBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: This Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, do you know the Chindipinos? How about Arthur Gunn?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: America's Asian confusion, Stephen A., and DACABLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Labor Day, we could use an Asian America superhero; from the Sherpas, to Mineta, Mink, and Larry Itliong BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Rare Corky Lee interview reveals much about the late Asian American photographerBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Shang-Chi" rules the world, but 2021 Emmys' a different universeBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Afghan Americans are Asian Americans–Here's one AAA's viewBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Republican recall effort in California is over, but the threat to democracy is everywhere in the U.S.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Diverse jurors deliver justice for George Floyd in Chauvin verdictsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The other Filipino vets, war brides, and why Veterans Day means a lot to the Filipino American community BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: When history makes news for Chinatown, Asian Americans, and Filipino AmericansBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: It's "L.A. Day"–"Losing Afghanistan Day" in AmericaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Being mindful of Simone Biles and Suni LeeBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Pro-Democracy Movement Comes to New York CityBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: What letter does Trump leave behind for Biden? Plus inaugural thoughts on the great undoingBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Tampa Bay hero? In my insurrectionist's Super Bowl, it's always David Fagen, African American and honorary Filipino BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Angelo Quinto is Asian America's George FloydBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian American Filipina’s Historic Gold, But Was it Right To Have Olympics? Plus: Kristina Wong and a Covid salonBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Atlanta plea deal no surprise–it's hard to get justice if you're Asian AmericanBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Farewell to Corky Lee, the undisputed Asian American photographer laureateBLOG
2020
- Emil Guillermo: That Nevada debate was Warren's shining moment, but Sanders still leads BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump knows better; It's an American virus that's killing Americans BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: For AAPIs, Yang's Biden endorsement overshadows Sanders' mauling on night coronavirus wins--but Bernie has the last wordBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Harvard and affirmative action, polling with Asians, and Jennifer Laude's murdererBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will we see "positive pandering" to Asian Americans for Super Tuesday?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Stocking stuffers? Pro-Democracy, my Asian American Black Bottom, and Harvard's early Christmas BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Kamala's historic moment for diversity at the DNCBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Filling in the white boxes with glee, voting for our democracyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump gets his third Supreme Court justice in record time and builds the wall that mattersBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Democracy in disarray: Iowa, Impeachment, and The State of the UnionBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Virus, Hate Violence, and the Death MarchBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Count every vote–the president can't dictate the electionBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: New Hampshire brings new frontrunner, just as I was warming up to Andrew Yang BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's debate performance yet another sign he's unfit to leadBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: An Asian American twist to understanding Pearl HarborBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Vice Presidential debate is a peek into the future of American politicsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo Podcast: The Slants didn't hurt Native American cause after allBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Super Tuesday fallout and Warren's choiceBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: John Lewis knew we were all in the same boatBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Pew’s Asian American voter analysis in time for APA Heritage MonthBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Zoom check-in for APA Heritage Month!BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Every Asian American owes a debt to Ruth Bader GinsburgBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Masked in America? It's hard to wear a face mask in the U.S., but it shouldn't beBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Pro-Democracy movement needed–in AmericaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Deep breath? I heard what Trump said. We all did.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Making sure Asian Americans show up; plus, a Filipino American history controversyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Colonized by Covid? A podcast interview with E.J. Ramos David BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A rallying call for Covid-stricken farmworker activist Dolores Velasco and a -30- for Pete Hamill BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump transitions to realityBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Biden-Harris victorious as America celebrates democracyBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fighting Filipino American nurses of Covid-19BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Survey says Asian Americans love Biden; Bernie and Michelle save Day One of Dems' Zoom convention BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Covid highs, Trump lowsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month cancelled?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Nearly 700 cases of anti-Asian American hate crimes after Trump's "Chinese Virus" talkBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump statement is not enough to end the anti-Asian virus he startedBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Victory for Dreamers at SCOTUS, but...BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Sick? Trump taking private lessons at Covid U.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Federal judge stops administration's Census speed-up–now get counted; plus Asian Americans on Breonna TaylorBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: What if Bernie said an Asian American couldn't get elected?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My favorite Asian American labor heroBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's bawl game, truth silos, and the white ethnic pressBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: George Floyd and Vincent ChinBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On restoring DACA, truth, and illegal Homeland Security chiefsBLOG
- More Trump Kung Flu, Estelita's powerful immigration story, and Vincent ChinBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Two Asian American friends zoom each otherBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: PODCAST - A Filipino American nurse at Elmhurst Hospital talks about the covid-19 pandemic BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump is the Anti-MLKBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Can we ward off the first American dictatorship?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The soft stonewall of Amy Coney Barrett BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Our knees on the necks of racists everywhere, and the work still to be doneBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Oscar’s global message—“Parasite,” anti-speciesism, and loveBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The aftertaste of Disney's "Hamilton," and Trump at Mount RushmoreBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: WSJ's Peggy Noonan says progressives are "mean and seek to kill"?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Dems energized as Biden awakens with strong speech at DNCBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The white darkness of truth-challenged Trump Republicans at the RNCBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: George Floyd, racist monuments, and one in Minneapolis called "The Hiker"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: No more debates! Who won last night's finale?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump the isolationist gets us to the brink of an endless world warBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump RNC ends with odd Asian American note BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's autocratic Asian fantasy through Lafayette ParkBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans speak out on "kung flu" fallout; California + other states shut down again; GOP distancing from Trump? BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hey Class of 2020, mask up and listen!BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Democrats' unbecoming "Berniephobia"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Better Asian American or just better than Trump?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Did 2020 really happen? Prepare for Trumpthink 2021.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The alarming Covid-19 death rate of Pacific IslandersBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's commutation of Stone; and understanding "cancel culture"BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Home alone–America self-quarantining for coronavirus' sakeBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: How is this Asian Pacific American Heritage Month different from all others? One word—Covid.BLOG
2019
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans were lynched too--On Trump's offensive lynching remarkBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Mueller report and "F" words, "A" words, and "I" wordsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After five days of quiet solidarity for Vincent Chin, get ready for the new ICE ageBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: More Amok after 25 yearsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A California blackout, Trump's defiance, and the First AmendmentBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A desperate Trump rides the TigerBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The hero returns and Tiger's mom is no Tiger MomBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's sanctuary dump and the mischaracterization of California's law to protect immigrantsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Spelling Bee Champs, NBA Finals, Jeremy Lin and the Golden State WarriorsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: America has a white supremacy problem, and it starts at the topBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I am but a trim tab for diversity watching Sandra Oh on the Golden GlobesBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Americans go back home?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A changing Asian America? Don't bet on it.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The grandmother vs. the motherf*****BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: New Gerrymandering Proposal--Redrawing Congressional Districts in Trump’s Image--and other matters of April Fools BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Does Andrew Yang know the Kool-Aid he was drinking at the CNN debate?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Celebrating the Nationals, and the World Series of Politics–ImpeachmentBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I.M. Pei - The death of an icon who built iconsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Dayton's message to the president, and still feeling "othered" in AmericaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Philippines? India? Trump is our homegrown democracy crisisBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My mom, International Women's Day, and politicizing hate in AmericaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Don't be fooled, the SCOTUS ruling on Korematsu still holds; Remembering a modest immigrant BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Revealing Asian America--Ali Wong lifts her dressBLOG
- Judge affirms race-conscious admissions in Harvard caseBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Shutdown exit plan? On the brink of blinkdom.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Kamala Harris fizzles as diversity's hope in presidential raceBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My Muslim family, the New Zealand video, and the Great ReplacementBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian immigrant voices on House Judiciary Committee provide conscience for impeachmentBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Go back"? "Go home"? Part of my story--the human zoos at the 1904 World's FairBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The President gets a D for D-DayBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hong Kong, Democracy, and TrumpBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Furloughed Asian American federal workers blame President Shutdown; and painting DC Spalding Gray BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Go home" is Trump's Foray into FascismBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The USWNT Win Was the Highlight of My Forced Visit to IowaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Why you won't hear about the Seaport Three in the State of the Union addressBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After Trump declares national emergency--my Rx: Ken JeongBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Fear the blurts, not just the tweets on Greenland, public charge, recession, and now birthright citizenshipBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's dog and gloating; California fires; and HalloweenBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Blowing the whistle on TrumpBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Presidential debate winner? Bowen Yang; and what to do about SNL's new racist comicBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Barr's Cliff Notes on Mueller report make for perfect AALDEF dinner talk BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Our "new national nightmare"? Impeachment talk on the rise for MLK weekendBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: America's Impeachment is our Pro-Democracy MovementBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Why won't Kamala Harris talk about being Asian on CNN's Iowa Town Hall?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Impeachment season has arrivedBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Thank those who uphold the truth; Does that include Nikki Haley?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Burning Man in the Trump eraBLOG
- The future of immigration? That Rio Grande image, DACA, and Gen ZBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Marianne vs. Trump the public racist: Will the 2020 election be a referendum on White Supremacy?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fight is on in Hong Kong, but there's a battle for Asian American civil liberties in the U.S. too BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Father's Day gift? Give the gift of Emil Amok!BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump "Tipped" Over by House as President Is ImpeachedBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Asian American community scores a win as SNL drops Shane GillisBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Oscar's "Bao," Trump in Hanoi, and the stories of Michael CohenBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: You feeling the impeachment hearings, yah?BLOG
- Thoughts on the CNN-NYT Democratic presidential debate and why Bernie should go veganBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Another Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month? Not like May for Maria RessaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor exposes politics of fear in Census citizenship questionBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's Queen ProblemsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Remembering 9/11 through an Asian American named Chin Sun Pak Wells; and a Sunday school visit with Jimmy Carter BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On pardoning 46 million turkeys, passing the tofu pot pie, and the holiday table talk BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fight for our legacy communities in New York's Lower East Side and around the U.S. BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will Kamala Harris be the first Asian American president?BLOG
2018
- Emil Guillermo: Time to remove the redacted one?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The beginning of America's undoing--the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh BLOG
- Konnichiwa? Zinke’s stink a sign of cluelessness as xenophobia rises in USBLOG
- PODCAST: Emil Amok's Takeout - Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Empowerment?BLOG
- Will “Crazy Rich Asians” make us forget the “screwed over poor Asian Americans,” and all the rest of us?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: October is Filipino American History Month--get out the birthday suit and celebrate!BLOG
- The striker who became teacher – Podcast with Daniel P. Gonzales on how ethnic studies was birthed at San Francisco State UniversityBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Racism, sexism, and Brett KavanaughBLOG
- PODCAST – California legislator David Chiu on the most Asian American state being sued by the fedsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My gift to you for Christmastime--a real Donald Trump shutdownBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After Florence and Mangkhut, time to talk seriously about climate change?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Crazy poor Asian on "Crazy Rich Asians"BLOG
- State of the Union? Truthfully–chaotic, unless Trump says thisBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Anti-affirmative action in yellowfaceBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Cooking Trump the Turkey and more, Herb Caen three-dot styleBLOG
- This Memorial Day, remember the gun industry's war on AmericaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Maybe abdication would appeal to Trump? How about exile?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Happy new year, you crazy rich Asians!BLOG
- On anonymity, Kavanaugh, and exclusionBLOG
- Almost an Asian American Winter Olympics, but no medal for NBCBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will Senate enable Brett Kavanaugh's bum-rush of the high court?BLOG
- Comey’s “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership”–Time to get on the same pageBLOG
- Lunar new year dinner to avert constitutional crisis?BLOG
- The shape of things? Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro says keep dreaming, as ICE whips up fear among immigrantsBLOG
- “J” is for “Jawdrop”– Time for the censure of President Donald J. TrumpBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump politicizes death of California Police Officer Ronil SinghBLOG
- At #MarchForOurLives, kids will lead the fight against gun violenceBLOG
- Filipino American scholar Dawn Mabalon, my friend and historical muse, leaves us at 46BLOG
- Census citizenship question? Only to harass people of color. Plus, Ass’n of Asian American Studies meets in SF 50 years after historic strikeBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On George H.W. Bush--Bury the man, but not the truthBLOG
- Why did Donald Trump make DACA/Dreamers his political football?BLOG
- Trump keeps pushing the limits of American WhitenessBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A new divided America after the midterm elections, but Trump? Still the same.BLOG
- Trump urges “Love Bill” for DACA, but a California federal judge offers real protection for Dreamers; and a 20/20 on OprahBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On hoodoos, the Harvard trial, and story slammingBLOG
- "Some Asians"? A retired Harvard dean's telling remarkBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On death, racial slurs, and John McCain; and one more memory of historian Dawn MabalonBLOG
- Trump’s megalomania exposed in “Fire and Fury”BLOG
- Emil Gullermo: A good immigration story and a sad one, days apartBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Tuesday's vote, our Asian American racial identity, and the Harvard caseBLOG
2017
- PODCAST – Last night of “Amok Monologues” at the San Diego Fringe FestivalBLOG
- Trump’s Cruise Missile Viagra; Gorsuch; and a PODCAST: Bataan Death March–75 years later; and beyond whitewashing of “Ghost in the Shell”BLOG
- Filipino WWII Vet Almeda wins his claim; Fil-Vets honored at Congressional Gold Medal ceremonyBLOG
- Rejecting a Trumpulent AmericaBLOG
- After firing Comey, Trump emerges the New NixonBLOG
- Not shutting up now–King Donald’s War on Immigrants, and a podcast extra with Dream activist Hina NaveedBLOG
- Dragged United passenger Dr. David Dao is no Rosa Parks, but he could be a poster boy for all consumers; PODCAST: Dr. Dao’s case; Mimi HwangBLOG
- Actor BD Wong says his Emmy-nominated role in “Mr. Robot” doesn’t “defame or devalue trans-ness” or he would not do itBLOG
- Trump gets trumped by federal judges out west, and a new PODCAST– In Virginia, a judge protects a Filipino American’s rightsBLOG
- Fake tax cuts in a taxing holiday seasonBLOG
- Emil Guillermo PODCAST: Randall Park at the APAICS gala for AAPI Heritage Month talks about Asian American representation in the mediaBLOG
- On workplace harassment, “Me Too,” and ApuBLOG
- Sanitized travel ban 2.0 has database provision to criminalize Muslims in America; PODCAST–Deepa Iyer says immigrant communities “already living in fear”BLOG
- Emil Amok’s Takeout Podcast – No rest on Memorial Day for a WWII Filipino Vet; and a conversation with AAAS President-elect Theo Gonzalves on APAHMBLOG
- Photographer Corky Lee on his life, exclusion, and the Golden Spike photo; PODCAST EXTRA: That Trumpcare vote, and moreBLOG
- A Bitcoin for your thoughts as Trump Year One ends and 2018 beginsBLOG
- Kneeling for Puerto Rico and surviving the survival politics of Donald TrumpBLOG
- Paris Accord pullout? Trump’s twitter logorrhea impacts our political climate even more; and a Podcast on our community conundrum: Are South Asians really Asian?BLOG
- Asian American says Obamacare saved his life, in AALDEF podcastBLOG
- UPDATED–Judge Robart’s halt of travel ban frees a Yemeni American father and daughter after “Kafka-esque” journey from DjiboutiBLOG
- First Charlie Rose, then Matt Lauer; Who tells Trump, “You’re fired”?BLOG
- United must treat Asian Americans–or any other passengers–as human beings with dignityBLOG
- Creeping along from Obama 44 to Trump 45BLOG
- Undocumented, But Undaunted–An Asian American DACA recipient experiences Trump’s big speechBLOG
- CAPAC leader Rep. Judy Chu on skipping the Trump inaugural, saving health care, Dreamers, and moreBLOG
- Oh no, “Hawaii Five-0” and what it means to all of usBLOG
- In a Trump era, Fred Korematsu matters more today than everBLOG
- Flips all over the place–Flynn, Trump, Taxes, and DACABLOG
- Military necessity? Japanese Latin Americans say U.S. owes an apology for WWII kidnappings; Also on the PODCAST, Trumpcare’s defeatBLOG
- Thoughts on Rep. John Lewis, Desus and Mero, and Steve Harvey for the MLK WeekendBLOG
- Who is Asian American? On AMEMSA, Vincent Chin, and my Amok Monologues for Father’s Day. PODCAST EXTRA: Karthick RamakrishnanBLOG
- The Slants’ Simon Tam speaks candidly on PODCAST: “The cure for hate speech isn’t censorship…let communities decide, not government.”BLOG
- Big fires in NorCal; Vandalism in Little ManilaBLOG
- If Filipinos were here first, shouldn’t this be the United States of the Philippines?BLOG
- Three Asian Americans on Harvey: A stranded evacuee, a Katrina survivor, and a Trump boosterBLOG
- Fil Vets of WWII don’t die, they “just fade away;” but so does the feel good momentBLOG
- Trump’s total eclipse of American valuesBLOG
- Oscars, bathroom debate, and immigration–In one year, America goes from #OscarsSoWhite to #TrumpSoWhiteBLOG
- What killed DACA? Trump’s white identity politicsBLOG
- Remembering the evictions at San Francisco’s International HotelBLOG
- Congress shines light on extrajudicial killings in the Philippines; A survivor’s tale under oathBLOG
- The GOP ethics reversal and Asian American leader Mike HondaBLOG
- How a Yemeni girl and her dad missed the Super Bowl, but beat Trump’s travel ban–and stressed out their lawyersBLOG
- Getting justice could be even harder with Judge Gorsuch on the Supreme CourtBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Earth Day–PODCAST Interview with Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s Miya Yoshitani, Trump’s 100 Days, and Bill O’Reilly’s oustingBLOG
- On Alex Tizon’s “Lola”BLOG
- Phil Tajitsu Nash remembers the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 & the WWII incarceration of Japanese AmericansBLOG
- Trump’s 100 vs. real anniversaries: the LA riots, a cousin’s death, and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month; PODCAST: Will Dao get a tax cut? And more…BLOG
- Eddie Huang caps an AAJA committed to telling our Asian American storiesBLOG
- Hurricane Harvey is more proof–Trump doesn’t know how to act presidential, or humanBLOG
- “Mommy, I need you,” a Mother’s Day podcast memory; plus Trump grows more Nixony by the dayBLOG
- When San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee invited me in from the rainBLOG
- Is Srinivas Kuchibhotla the Vincent Chin for South Asians?BLOG
- This November’s word? Trumpudiation–but not everyone is cheeringBLOG
- Bipartisan politics wins Congressional medal for Filipino Vets, right-wing ire for Trump on DACABLOG
- Podcast–What you need to know now about DACABLOG
- Thanks to Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh, Travel Ban 2.0 Blocked For NowBLOG
- Beyond current travel ban proposal–Are Asians and Asian Americans next?BLOG
- Lessons from Vincent Chin murder 35 years after; Podcast interview with Helen Zia; and thoughts on my interview with Chin’s killer, Ronald EbensBLOG
- Marilou Danley, Stephen Paddock, and gun controlBLOG
2016
- Asian Americans, people of color not taken for granted by Clinton, but she isn’t focused on usBLOG
- Trump tapes are the vulgarization of American democracyBLOG
- Blasts from the past in the 2016 campaign season, with a touch of anti-Asian xenophobiaBLOG
- The nostalgic racism of Fox and “American Idol,” still hung up on William HungBLOG
- Barack and Raul is the new dance beat in Cuba, but will it catch fire for Congress to end the blockade?BLOG
- In the red part of blue state California, Asian Americans have felt the burn, find hope in SandersBLOG
- Muhammad Ali spoke out for all people of color, even Asian AmericansBLOG
- Why I’m not watching #SuperBowl50, but rooting for Kenny Stabler insteadBLOG
- Shut down Guantanamo, and while you’re at it, don’t call it GitmoBLOG
- Post 9/11, President Carter’s Sunday complaint, Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia, & Sunny Wells turning 40BLOG
- Orlando massacre another wakeup call for all Americans to unite against homophobia, Islamophobia, and gun violenceBLOG
- Bill Clinton and a veteran Sacramento TV reporter make my AAJABLOG
- Harvard admits record number of Asian Americans, and a majority-minority class of 2020BLOG
- On Addison Russell, Asian American World Series hero, the World Series, and VotingBLOG
- Filipino American History Month opens with a jolt of Hitler from Philippine President DuterteBLOG
- On Pearl Harbor Day, Mike Honda hopes everyone remembers our history lessonBLOG
- Year of the Monkey, my father’s birthday, & Sacramento Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins’ ignoranceBLOG
- Asian Americans not immune from gun violence, so why no mention in Obama’s CNN gun show?BLOG
- Duterte can’t bury past with Marcos, as the politically “inconceivable” continues in the Philippines and the U.S. of TrumpBLOG
- The tie that binds–the Supreme Court after Scalia is a boon to labor unionsBLOG
- “Master of None” Emmy winner’s message to Tiger Moms–Don’t let your babies grow up to be violinistsBLOG
- How Filipinos discovered America, though America still resists discovering themBLOG
- 2016 National Asian American Survey More Revealing Than Veep DebateBLOG
- How Trump’s business partner in the Philippines, Jose E.B. Antonio, does business with Filipino AmericansBLOG
- Green light for doubting voters–FBI clears Clinton, Trump goes back to rigged talk; Remember Mallika Das on Election DayBLOG
- For many Asian Americans, Vincent Chin’s death was an awakeningBLOG
- The day the Philippines first stood up to MarcosBLOG
- Obama’s one last appeal for a United States that works–togetherBLOG
- Does SFPD racist texting scandal help us understand NYPD’s Liang-Gurley case?BLOG
- Third presidential debate moment–Asian Americans know what it means when politicians don’t accept election resultsBLOG
- Not a spy in the house-Chinese American scientist Xiaoxing Xi; his daughter, Joyce; and Wen Ho LeeBLOG
- Hillary had me at Rodham, as she stakes out the new middleBLOG
- Asian Americans back Bernie Sanders in new Field Poll in California, but don’t jump to conclusions–yetBLOG
- After Broadway exit, “Allegiance” makes nationwide one-night stand, Dec. 13BLOG
- Did you Lochte Olympics like I Lochte Olympics?BLOG
- Iowa? More than 90 percent white, but Asian Americans will caucus in Election 2016BLOG
- We are all No. 42 on Jackie Robinson Day, even Asian Americans like Tim LincecumBLOG
- Donald Trump’s new heights of megalomaniaBLOG
- A bombastic July 4th is needed to drown the sorrow of our Summer of TerrorBLOG
- Debate over Marcos burial a red herring for Duterte’s Marcos LiteBLOG
- Prince–Beyond race, a genius’ vision, an activist’s heartBLOG
- My holiday gift to you–A Disaggregated Asian America!BLOG
- Justice Antonin Scalia’s death signals potential for change–time for an Asian American justice on the Supreme Court?BLOG
- Asian American vote? Trump #NotMyPresident yet, but America still my country and Obama still our leaderBLOG
- Father’s Day, Orlando, and IslamophobiaBLOG
- The Donald trumps insult to Filipinos with veiled assassination threatBLOG
- Vincent Rodriguez III as the love object of Rachel Bloom? CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is my kind of showBLOG
- Our top posts of 2016, plus a podcast on Fox News, Asian Americans, and affirmative actionBLOG
- #OscarsSoWhite? Oscars so long, dull, and out of focusBLOG
- On John Leguizamo, colonial mentality, and DallasBLOG
- Obamacare, Millennials, and Hillary or Donald for Halloween?BLOG
- Before the Clinton vs. Trump “Super Bowl” of Presidential Debates, will you kneel with Time cover boy Colin Kaepernick?BLOG
- On the race question, Donald Trump, Democrats, and why not an Asian American debate?BLOG
- Obama pardons turkeys; should we pardon Trump?BLOG
- My interview with an Asian American for TrumpBLOG
- Thinking about the Brussels strikes and my new fear–DemagoguephobiaBLOG
2015
- If you sue for discrimination like Ellen Pao, you’d better have the goods. Or be like this Uber driver with a smoking hot video.BLOG
- Asian Americans are Charlie HebdoBLOG
- Breaking News: NY Times/CBS poll on race doesn’t care much about Asian Americans or LatinosBLOG
- We should have heard from UC knife suspect Faisal MohammadBLOG
- Simon Tam’s fight to reappropriate “The Slants” seems more uphill than everBLOG
- America’s profound ignorance about the Delano Grape Strike, Filipino Americans, and Larry ItliongBLOG
- The FBI finally used the “T” word in San Bernardino, but will it fan “Islamophobia”?BLOG
- Sherpa fears Nepal earthquake could end climbing season on Mt. Everest (updated)BLOG
- Margaret Cho stole the show at the Golden GlobesBLOG
- The silencing of Roanoke journalists by bullets, Jorge Ramos by Donald TrumpBLOG
- Happy FK Day! FK Day? For Fred Korematsu, of courseBLOG
- 50 years later, Asian American images and links galore for 2015; Here comes Aziz Ansari in 2016BLOG
- Is “Fresh Off The Boat” historical or the taming of Eddie Huang?BLOG
- From SCOTUS to Jenner, LGBTQ is on the front burner of civil rightsBLOG
- All the anti-Muslim talk in the presidential campaign, and Pope Francis’ Asian American numbersBLOG
- ‘Last Fable Day’? Asian Americans looking for a first one, as “Fresh Off the Boat” Snubbed for Emmy AwardsBLOG
- Hikaru Nakamura, No. 1 US chess player, and Chloe Portia Chik, Asian face on the Hillary video–a new Asian American identity?BLOG
- San Francisco for Halloween–Shrimp Boy or Ed Lee?BLOG
- Planned Parenthood shooting claims Asian American victim, Hawaii’s Jennifer MarkovskyBLOG
- So many Republican candidates, but do they want the Voting Rights Act to help us vote for them?BLOG
- Riding Wong Kim Ark to combat GOP’s anchor baby talk, and thanks to family of Dr. Suzanne AhnBLOG
- Where’s Patsy Mink? Starbucks’ #RaceTogether short-shrifts Asian AmericansBLOG
- The new Asian American civil war over affirmative action?BLOG
- Syrian refugees, Japanese American internees, and the new American hysteriaBLOG
- Do Asian American lives matter?BLOG
- Vincent Chin died 33 years ago, an injustice still; Ronald Ebens, Chin’s killer, still owes millions to the Chin estate.BLOG
- On Selma, Todd Endo, and the continuing fight for justice in all of America’s institutionsBLOG
- Margaret Cho talks to me about the Golden Globes, the White Oscars, “Fresh Off the Boat,” and SexBLOG
- The fight for pay equity is not over for many Filipino veterans of WWIIBLOG
- NYPD’s Patrick Cherry’s Apology? Full investigation needed firstBLOG
- UPDATE–Kristof’s Facebook response to “Asian Advantage” critics is a semi-mea culpaBLOG
- Nick Kristof’s distasteful reframing of the model minority as “The Asian Advantage” in the New York TimesBLOG
- Post-Selma rap lessons from “Fresh Off The Boat,” OU’s SAE, and President ObamaBLOG
- Gay Manongs, the hard life of Larry Itliong, and the sexual fluidity of the first wave of Filipino AmericansBLOG
- Why you should care that China covets your SpratlysBLOG
- Let’s end this civil war on affirmative action among Asian AmericansBLOG
- Asian Americans will miss David LettermanBLOG
- New Year thoughts for NYPD’s Peter Liang, Montana’s Markus Kaarma, San Francisco’s Stephen GuillermoBLOG
- Why I write and go amok on behalf of Asian Americans everywhereBLOG
- Oscars? Here’s the Emil for Best Minimal Presence by an Asian American in a Best Picture nomineeBLOG
- Vincent Wu’s birthday memories–jailed at Selma in 1965, worked security for MLK at the March finaleBLOG
- Asian Americans No. 1 by 2065, but let’s celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of racist quotas and “immigration interruptus” nowBLOG
- Debate fearmongers should celebrate the end of the Chinese Exclusion Act and rethink politics of fearBLOG
- Asian Americans know why Obama gave the terrorism speech he did, as Trump fans the hysteriaBLOG
- Wall Street Journal’s “chink in its armor” absolutely requires an apologyBLOG
- Victory for same-sex marriage must lead to broader focus on LGBTQ discriminationBLOG
- Diversity at the movies? Was that Kiyoshi Kuromiya in a few frames of “Selma”?BLOG
- Asian American family not satisfied after Louisville prosecutor reprimanded for insensitive commentsBLOG
- Ronald Ebens, Vincent Chin’s killer, denies financial windfall, debt to Chin estate in new interviewBLOG
- Christmas horror at Miss Universe pageant or Trump campaign ploy?BLOG
- A whole lot of racial profiling going on–ask James Blake, Jeremy Lin, Xiaoxing Xi, Sherry ChenBLOG
- Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof, and Father’s DayBLOG
- Race Mixers Unite–Remember the Lovings, the Naims, and all the Asian bachelors pastBLOG
2014
- Officer Darren Wilson’s words, and thoughts on Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and my cousin StephenBLOG
- Emil Guillermo on PETA’s Virtual Reality: What’s good for chickens may be good for stopping racismBLOG
- In California, SCA 5 may be DOA due to Asian Americans against affirmative actionBLOG
- American Filipinos, political polls, and “The Voice”BLOG
- “Saturday Night Live” TV ad parody on Asian American Doll is downright racistBLOG
- Sherpa solidarity–from Queens to Nepal–standing up to the legacy of the mountainBLOG
- Guillermo family and San Francisco District Attorney’s office meet for first time; #justiceforstephen continuesBLOG
- An attack during the attack: An Asian American in Israel and his view on the Gaza warBLOG
- Easy answer to Fox’s “Chinaman” problem–Beckel begone; Why more than a half-hearted apology is neededBLOG
- Seahawks’ Richard Sherman offended by word “thug,” but Justin Bieber probably digs itBLOG
- Racism, Eric Garner, and that videotapeBLOG
- President Obama’s immigration delayBLOG
- The Supreme Court ruling on Michigan’s Proposal 2 makes the fight for affirmative action harderBLOG
- From San Francisco to New York, FBI’s Leland Yee operation is a stinging “model minority” busterBLOG
- No “Asian American Privilege” here–Baseball stars Travis Ishikawa and Kolten Wong steal the stage in America’s national pastimeBLOG
- Not My Father’s Horse RacesBLOG
- Ferguson, the First Amendment, and the Asian American Journalists AssociationBLOG
- It’s Asian vs. Asian in California’s 17th C.D., but Mike Honda says “it’s not a civil war”BLOG
- The slow death of freedom, democracy, and journalismBLOG
- “12 Years a Slave” Worthy of Golden Globe–and Oscar Too?BLOG
- Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Month…and BTW, the race aspects of the murder of Vincent Chin are no urban mythBLOG
- On conformity, the Oscars, and a talk with “Jeopardy” hero Arthur ChuBLOG
- State of Asian America: Updates on beating victim Randy Gener, SNL, “yellow voice,” Bruno Mars, and moreBLOG
- Slam dunk: The NBA’s fast break to racial justice on Donald SterlingBLOG
- Grace Lee Boggs coming to big screen near you? Let’s hope so.BLOG
- Elliot Rodger’s manifesto shows self-hate fueled anti-Asian violence that kicked off Isla Vista rampageBLOG
- On Obama’s bombing of Syria and our “non-war” warBLOG
- Standup Guy: Robin Williams was an honorary Filipino American, gone too soonBLOG
- Finally, the world notices Asian American Kenneth Bae–but it took a Dennis RodmanBLOG
- Amid the Super Bowl hype, Randy Gener’s story is more typical of the Asian American immigrant experience than you thinkBLOG
- Asian American Hustle? With CA Senator Leland Yee’s arrest, Asian American empowerment takes a hitBLOG
- On the Trans-Pacific surveillance of Filipino writer Carlos BulosanBLOG
- In San Francisco, the murderer of Stephen Guillermo may be set free: #JusticeforStephenBLOG
- Remembering Vincent Chin: The Passion and Agony of a CommunityBLOG
- Executive action, immigration, and nostalgia for when government really did workBLOG
- On the importance of the unimportance of baseball and the San Francisco GiantsBLOG
- Trudging on: The fight for Native American justice, The Slants, and Stephen Guillermo’s posthumous degreeBLOG
- Jon Meis: The Asian American with pepper spray is the hero in the Seattle Pacific University shootingBLOG
- A stocking stuffer full of “Serial,” North Korea’s Sony hack, John Yoo’s torture memo, and Marcus Mariota for the holidaysBLOG
- Glory and racism: Nixon’s audio clip on the Vietnam WarBLOG
- Heather Marlowe and Emma Sulkowicz know rape is no joke, why don’t the Simpsons?BLOG
- On remembering Executive Order 9066, the Japanese American internment, and seeing “House of Cards”BLOG
- A little love for Shani Davis, Julie Chu, and J.R. Celski, Diversity’s Champs at the Winter Olympics in SochiBLOG
- Instead of real immigration reform, we get a border crisis–made in the U.S.A.BLOG
- The Oscars, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Senate smear of Debo AdegbileBLOG
- After the 2014 midterms, the invisible Asian American voter unveiledBLOG
- #JusticeForStephen? The Guillermo family continues to hopeBLOG
- Good Friday? Thank goodness Easter is just a rolling rock awayBLOG
- Emil Guillermo on Labor Day, CNN, NPR, and a cross-country drive in the mediaBLOG
- More debate, not more bombs, needed 13 years after 9/11BLOG
- Fighting the overwhelming images of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17BLOG
2013
- Asian Americans have a rooting interest in the Oscar race: Anupam Kher, Dr. Patel in Silver Linings PlaybookBLOG
- Restoring Larry Itliong to his rightful place during Filipino American History MonthBLOG
- Affirmative action alive and well–for now–as the Supreme Court throws Fisher back to the lower courtBLOG
- Dream Day: The Martin Luther King Day and Inauguration Day CoincidenceBLOG
- America’s Asian fetish frenzy: An Indian American wins Miss America and CBS’s Julie Chen reveals a different kind of affirmative actionBLOG
- A few things I learned about us after BostonBLOG
- Yelling “stop deportations,” an undocumented Asian American stands up and Obama stands downBLOG
- Court victories bring out massive crowd of Asian Americans at San Francisco PrideBLOG
- One Asian American perspective on Zimmerman, TrayvonBLOG
- Fred T. Korematsu Day 2013: Imagining an Asian American Civil Rights Hall of FameBLOG
- Far from classy: “Anchorman 2” didn’t need racist joke against FilipinosBLOG
- Forty days and counting, eyewitnesses talk of the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)BLOG
- No sympathy for racist Dukies, but some suggestions for frat parties at DukeBLOG
- New Asian American goal: putting the family back in the immigration billBLOG
- The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision: Three ScenariosBLOG
- KTVU’s Asiana Airlines Debacle: They fired some people, but you can’t fire racismBLOG
- Liberace: The Queer for Non-QueersBLOG
- What equality looks like: scenes from some historic Asian American weddings during San Francisco PrideBLOG
- Asian Americans not forgotten by Obama 50 years after March on Washington, Dr. King’s SpeechBLOG
- IFC’s “Maron” dishes up pineapple slur: So is it hip to be sexist and racist?BLOG
- A hopeful State of the Union–upstaged by the manhunt for Christopher DornerBLOG
- The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington: Why Asian Americans should be there marching, dreamingBLOG
- Immigration mark-up: Waving a fan to clear the stink of compromiseBLOG
- Fast food for lunch? Join a one-day strike to say “No Wai”BLOG
- Nelson Mandela taught us how to fight for racial justice–and how to winBLOG
- Katy Perry’s fashion imperialism on the American Music AwardsBLOG
- The national coming out party for same-sex marriage?BLOG
- Rush Limbaugh and the acceptance of low-level racism against Asian AmericansBLOG
- Computer snafus abound–but let’s hope the website is the worst thing about the Affordable Care ActBLOG
- Wrong admissions notices sent to college applicants; Company says color-blind admissions influenced softwareBLOG
- Associated Press policy change on “illegal immigrant”: a harbinger for immigration changes to come?BLOG
- Get your FBI file this year–because you may have one, just like Filipino American author Carlos BulosanBLOG
- Farewell 2013: To more amok moments in 2014BLOG
- Thoughts on Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), the Philippines, and Veterans DayBLOG
- Shutdown Government: American Democracy Is Breaking BadBLOG
- The Squirmy “Truth”: Schwarzenegger, Lance Armstrong, an imagined Manti Te’o interview, and Obama IIBLOG
- Conan and the Comedian-in-Chief in a night of acceptable truth-tellingBLOG
- Larry Itliong Tapes II: How the Fil-Am labor leader didn’t sell out, and his comment on Cesar ChavezBLOG
- Redefining the victim: How colleges will soon justify affirmative action-for whitesBLOG
- Racism: Milena Clarke’s old-fashioned experience vs. the new kind after the Asiana crashBLOG
- Snowden, the real patriot exposing the NSA and our virtual democracyBLOG
- Now that stop and frisk is unconstitutional in New York, will we start seeing whites profiled for a change?BLOG
- Fight discrimination or get plastic surgery? The eye-opening case of Julie ChenBLOG
- The Disappointing Deal That Avoids the Fiscal CliffBLOG
- A Super Bowl with the lights on and the Asian American stereotypes in those commercialsBLOG
- Let’s hope Saturday Night Live doesn’t laugh off its diversity problemBLOG
- White robe, black robe: What was Justice Scalia saying to us about voting rights?BLOG
- New York’s Soda Ban: When good ideas become bad lawsBLOG
- The immigration distraction: IRS, AP, Benghazi scandals dominate news, but advocates remain optimisticBLOG
- Race conversation? After Asiana gaffe, new Asian American slur at CNBC–a CHITA problemBLOG
- Emmys stumble awkwardly: TV’s biggest night exposes showbiz racism, ageismBLOG
- It’s May and the fight for immigration reform is onBLOG
- Asian Americans Join the 50th Anniversary March on WashingtonBLOG
- With biker bullying of Asian American Alexian Lien and his family, have we entered into Vincent Chin territory?BLOG
2012
- Linsanity? Call it Linphomania.BLOG
- Saturday Night Regression: More Charlie Chan humor from SNLBLOG
- What America can learn from the San Francisco GiantsBLOG
- Zakaria’s Soros interview: Thinking like a billionaireBLOG
- A Happy Thanksgiving Buffet: ‘The Hobbit’ story’s Deep Throat, Gallup’s concession, 80-20’s fundraising ploy, and Facing Race 2012BLOG
- Linsanity is no reason to bring out the “C” wordBLOG
- Romney’s taxes, self-deportation, and observations about Florida Debate IBLOG
- On Bruno Mars and SNL, Larry Itliong, and why I’m not watching the third debateBLOG
- Watching Oscar: Sacheen Littlefeather, we need youBLOG
- Diversity’s thunder shakes national politics, and Asian Americans played a roleBLOG
- Is Fisher really the case to end affirmative action?BLOG
- The First Presidential Debate, Asian Americans, and Affirmative ActionBLOG
- Gingrich Win is an Opening for – Santorum?BLOG
- Romney wins in the South–PacificBLOG
- The High-Achiever’s Exit: A Veterans Day observation about our former top vet, soldier, and spy, General PetraeusBLOG
- Aurora suspect James Holmes at first sight, but will the feeling fade?BLOG
- The White Terrorist at the Sikh TempleBLOG
- The President’s Speech: Obama’s “New Deal”–America’s Basic BargainBLOG
- My pre-Father’s Day GiantBLOG
- Immigrant go home? Gladly, sort of.BLOG
- No Model Minority: The Alienation of Oakland’s One L. GohBLOG
- Santorum: The Tim Tebow of Politics, but Google Him FirstBLOG
- Newtown: A marker for how far we haven’t come in the gun control debateBLOG
- Linsanity, Ann Curry, and a New America Media awardBLOG
- Romney? Obama? National Asian American Survey reveals the community’s evolving political mindsetBLOG
- The war in Afghanistan, boot camp, and the Dream ActBLOG
- Fighting Barry’s Racist EruptionBLOG
- After the Ravi verdict, a need for compassion, clarityBLOG
- Ravi Sentence: Fair and Balanced?BLOG
- Disco-dancing toward the Fiscal CliffBLOG
- Right-to-work for Christmas: The Labor Scrooge lives in Michigan and maybe in our communitiesBLOG
- Are Asian Americans really for the end of affirmative action?BLOG
- “Asian-spotting” the GOP convention: Elephants aplenty, but do Asian Americans show up?BLOG
- Gangnam-style: Of convention bounces, Psy hopping, and voter ID lawsBLOG
- Leaping to Super TuesdayBLOG
- Racial profiling anyone?BLOG
- Tale of three shootings: Aurora, Sikh temple, Oikos–how it plays when victims are people of colorBLOG
- That haunting photo of Ki Suk Han and the American conditionBLOG
- Voting Asian American, Sandy, and how sports can matter in politicsBLOG
- Asian vs. Asian: Why are some Asian Americans carrying Abby Fisher’s water in the affirmative action debate?BLOG
- Ronald Ebens, the man who killed Vincent Chin, apologizes 30 years laterBLOG
- Bundle Up for Democracy, and for your Eggs ObamaBLOG
- Last Fight for Manny Pacquiao?BLOG
- Affirmative action foes’ new tool: Asian Americans as the New JewsBLOG
- Bye-Bye Yahoo, Hello Jerry Yang 5.0?BLOG
- Unity 2012 and Affirmative ActionBLOG
- Can we all get along? Recalling injustice from Rodney King to Vincent ChinBLOG
- Fiscal Cliff? “Freedom Cliff” Gives OK to a Little New Year’s EavesdroppingBLOG
- My first bully, Lady Gaga, and Rush LimbaughBLOG
- New Field Poll in California says Asian Americans support the Affordable Care ActBLOG
- Eastwood’s chair: People of color as invisible as Obama at the Republican National ConventionBLOG
- Sado-Capitalist Romney heads to the SouthBLOG
- Winning dirty in Florida and the fight goes onBLOG
- Obama’s Ohana and Our Umbrella ProblemBLOG
- Diversity alive and well at DNC as Michelle Obama, Julian Castro starBLOG
- Giants may be hot, but the NYPD? Not.BLOG
- Obama’s Fair or Foul?BLOG
- Saving Justice Kennedy’s blind man and the Affordable Care ActBLOG
- With dog-eating joke, President Obama embraces his “Asian American-ness”BLOG
2011
- Emergency chute needed, even for Asian AmericansBLOG
- Is America ready for its next revolution? Grace Lee Boggs thinks soBLOG
- UC Davis pepper spray incident boosts Occupy, restores faith in student protestsBLOG
- It’s Brown in the Yellow StateBLOG
- The Patron Saint of the Undocumented is an Asian AmericanBLOG
- Yearning for a North Korean Spring?BLOG
- Ed Lee and Jerry Sandusky: one winner, one loserBLOG
- Missing the Boat on Limbaugh?BLOG
- Obama’s SOTUS: Just Enough To Keep Us InterestedBLOG
- On union busting, nation busting, and the reverse immigration of retireesBLOG
- The last word on Tiger Mom: Hu?BLOG
- When the housing counselors go, the scammers come to preyBLOG
- Obama’s Crystal Clear QuagmireBLOG
- “Downgrade pain” courtesy of our political classBLOG
- The Koh-bama approach in LibyaBLOG
- Scott Pelley, AnchormanBLOG
- On Firsting, APA Heritage Month, and “Paper Tigers”BLOG
- With Goodwin Liu, Asian Americans now the majority on California’s highest court-but is diversity the winner?BLOG
- Lowe’s hits new lows in corporate responsibilityBLOG
- GOP’s Cover Wearing Thin on Its Distaste for Goodwin LiuBLOG
- Separate but equal: journalists of color run out of unityBLOG
- Taking the leap: the horror and the love of 9/11BLOG
- Why President Obama shouldn’t give up on the Liu nominationBLOG
- Occupied or self-occupied? Thoughts on America’s anti-corporate protestBLOG
- When Democracy Meets DiversityBLOG
- Previously on CSI: OsamaBLOG
- Does it really matter if San Francisco gets its first elected Asian American mayor?BLOG
- Why we all must remember Fred T. KorematsuBLOG
- It happened in Vegas: When Mitt puts his mitts on PerryBLOG
- Of white hoods, push-up bras and getting on your “ching-chong”BLOG
- Vargas, the UndocumentedBLOG
- New York’s Same-Sex Victory Lifts the ParadeBLOG
- Oakland on display: City pays price to occupy the First AmendmentBLOG
- Deng’s Paw: Showing some claw in defense of her MurdochBLOG
- Punk’d Exec No Reason to Defund NPR?BLOG
- Voting rights violations in San Francisco Mayoral election?BLOG
- Ed Lee’s Ranked Choice High in San FranciscoBLOG
- Mayor Ed Lee flexes his muscle with useless crackdown on Occupy SFBLOG
- Affirmative action’s still kicking, but so is its nemesis, Ward ConnerlyBLOG
- San Francisco’s Political Gold MountainBLOG
- Newt Gingrich and his grand immigration ployBLOG
- The Diversity Deficit in Iowa and New Hampshire, Gingrich’s Pearl Harbor, and Danny ChenBLOG
- “Don’t ask, don’t tell” bad for the military, but good enough for civilian life-and “Anderson”BLOG
- Farewell to Tigger WuBLOG
- The Republicans’ Perry problem and a new trend-Conservatives embrace illegal immigrationBLOG
- Bad Deal, Still Bad EconomyBLOG
- A bias toward hate crimes in Rutgers case?BLOG
- Gaming Democracy in San FranciscoBLOG
- Shaq’s greatest slur and one more time for GoodwinBLOG
- Obama gets Osama: one less boogeyman, but will a new one emerge?BLOG
- My slant on The Slants and other Asian American “N” wordsBLOG
- Vincent Chin? Remembering Ronald Ebens-the guy who got away with murderBLOG
- David Chiu’s fundraising in New York? Of course, he isBLOG
2010
- Who’s Still Dreaming the Dream?BLOG
- On California, Nikki Haley and Identity PoliticsBLOG
- Hate Crime For Rutgers Outers?BLOG
- Undocumented to get “Bushwhacked”?BLOG
- Rendell’s comments far from innocentBLOG
- Asian American Tea Party?BLOG
- Legislation and Real LifeBLOG
- SNL’s Hu Jintao a new “Charlie Chan-ism”?BLOG
- WikiLeaking on U.S. diplomatic effortsBLOG
- Since when did the “S” in TSA stand for “sex”?BLOG
- Tax-cut politics: “Robin Hood in Reverse”BLOG